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BA Philosophy and English

University of Sussex

Institution
University of Sussex
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Philosophy and English BA (Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
QV35
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB or BBB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme engages with both analytic and continental philosophical traditions alongside western and non-western perspectives, covering modules from epistemology and metaphysics to postcolonial literature and global modernisms.

Modules

  • Burning to Read
  • Reason and Argument
  • Truth and Morality
  • Science & Religion
  • World Making
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Epistemology and Metaphysics
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
  • Language for Life
  • Liberty and Horror
  • Literature and Philosophy
  • Novels (how to read them and why)
  • Philosophy and Professional Life
  • The Art of Short Fiction
  • Word & Image
  • (Re)thinking Civilization
  • Global Modernisms
  • Kant
  • Life Story
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of AI
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Queer Brighton and Sussex: Histories, Heritage, and Aesthetics
  • Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
  • Romance
  • Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
  • Writing Poetry
  • English Literature Dissertation
  • Philosophy Dissertation
  • Analytic Philosophy
  • Modern European Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Art & Literature
  • Posthuman/Premodern
  • Psychoanalysis and Literature
  • Serial Fictions
  • Social & Political Philosophy
  • Topics in African American Literature
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
  • Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
  • Championing Literacy Placement
  • Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
  • Ethics
  • Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
  • Islamic Philosophy
  • Modern Nature
  • Post-Kantian Philosophy
  • Queer Fictions
  • Sussex Modernism